Wow
Bad decisions...
I agreed to help someone house their dogs for the night tomorrow night.
I hate dogs.
BTW if this makes no sense it is because I am DRUNK!

I need to work on a bike I have in my garage and I am sitting in my living room drinking stella until my face feels funny instead. bad decision.

Next bad decision only buying ONE six pack of stella.
Now I am getting to where my face feels funny and I am out!
SHIT what do I do now?

I need to pul the forks apart off a KZ and rebuild them so I can put my kz back on the road. Already did the carbs now just need to get the forks. But for some reason I have not made time. I wish I knew why.
It is not a hard job. I have done forks before. I just need to do them.

So many things to do and I do not tackle them as well as I should.

I have strawberry soda in the fridge I wonder if I have any vodka or tequila in the cuppord.
I wonder how tequila goes with strawberry soda....

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Parts bike
Having a parts bike is nice but when you say Oh I am going to do XXX today remember your basically doing the job TWICE because you have to take it off the parts bike also.
Felt like I spent the whole day and got nothing done. I did a lot but it took a long time...

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Note to self
First DO NOT try to run over the curb on your motorcycle.
It is painful and expensive to fix your bike after you fall off.

second DO BUY a parts bike the next time you decide to own a 30 yr old bike. They are less expensive then buying all the parts you will find yourself needing on ebay!

Now just to remember this $hit!!!

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Motorcycle confusion
It sucks when you have two bikes and the petcocks have different positions.
I was on the CX and ran low on gas so put some in.
No biggie 3 gallons almost $10.
Turn the fuel back to what I thought was normal but it was off.
The KZ's petcock in the same position is on.
I drove home thinking there was something wrong with the bike when it was Operator Idiocy.
Encountered that a lot in the army but it was the drive not me making those mistakes.

In other mechanical new the Frontier has 5 new plugs out of a possible 6. It was a PITA to try and get at the 6th one.
I just decided tomorrow would be better to finish it. I am about to have a mechanic put in a new timing belt and such for me. I might just ask him to do it. Basically it is about to turn 100,000 miles and it is ready for that BIG service. I have done part of it but the rest I will let him finish.

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Beds
I swear queen size beds have gotten heavier in the last 10 years!
I clearly remember moving one by myself before and it was not nearly this difficult.
I think I might even have pulled a muscle in my right arm!

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Woke up tired today.
Not sleepy but cannot stop yawning.
I feel run down.
Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow!

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Outing
J-Man and I went out tonight. He drove! That means I get to drink. I am usually designated driver. That is fine but it is nice every once in a while to not be designated driver.
Had a beautiful bartender (Ashley of all names). Saw a waitress I had seen before (CK also known as Canadian Katie) who hugged me several times... I love hugs and do not get nearly enough of them. Met a new waitress named Natolie who also hugged me several times. Can you tell I like hugs? I know how sick!
I hope I did not appear to them as the average drunk guy. I would hate to be in that category in their minds.
It was a lot of fun! I hope to get more hugs in the future. CK seemed to even think there was a young women there appropriate for me but it was leaving time. It is REALLY late for me.

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Junk
I have been for the last several weeks clenching my jaw. I realize I am doing it and force myself to stop. I do not believe I am hurting my teeth.
I believe I am stressed. I am not sure why I am so stressed.
I have a lot of reasons to be stressed, doesn't everyone?
I cannot remember them affecting me this way before.
I know it is in part (mostly) money and at least partly self image. I have gained some more weight and feel self conscious of it.

Maybe tonight is a good night for a beer.
It would not help my weight but it would help me relax.

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4 am
I woke up at 4 am having nightmares about the condition of my house.
As you know in dreams everything is extreme and that is how it was in this one. Every wall was falling in and the roof swayed. It needs work but nothing like what the dream had in it.
I want a better job so I can do more work to this place.

We had our subdivision work day yesterday. I apparently got enough sunscreen on my right shoulder/upper back but not my left. I am burnt on one side. That sucks.

Went to a bar last night. Just did not feel like working in the house anymore so went out. I have discovered that going to bed at or before 10 pm is not conducive to meeting people out and about like that. There were two older women there and a handful of professional drinkers. It was 7:30 pm. I left at about 8pm. I was bored and the music was way too loud. I spent $10 which I cannot help but think that is the cost of a stick and a half of hardy plank siding.

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Yesterday
I ate like an insane... well whatever eats too much.
It was the b-day so went to lunch with work friends.
Went to dinner with family.
Applied beer repetitively family irritation until it was eliminated.
I will bet I ate a bizillion calories yesterday.
So I woke up hungry.
Can anyone explain that to me? How the hell does that work out?
I would figure you would wake up and not want to eat again for a month.

Anyway. :)
I am up weight and not happy but tired of watching every thing I put in my mouth soooooo.
I guess I need to get vigilant again.

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sad day...
I really do not need to say anything.
All of my thoughts have been echoed by a lot of others before I got here this morning.

I am sick to my stomach by this.
I felt sick when obama was elected.
I am sicker now than I was then.
I am ashamed of this country right now!
Yes ashamed. Personal responsibility and personal freedom NO LONGER MEAN ANYTHING HERE!

I wonder when they will start populating other planets.
Them might be the only place left where my personal beliefs will have any value...

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Sad but true
I am one of those people who has to share every detail of my life with someone all the time.
Which means that there have been no details to share lately - or no life to share - anyway that is why so few posts lately.
Also why today's post. I got my taxes done yesterday. I am due back 1,800. from the feds and about 8 from the state. That is about what is left on my my one remaining credit card 1,963. So I figure that the tax money can pay for that and I will make two more payments after that. Then the rest of that money can go toward the truck I bought recently. I hope to have the truck payed off inside of two years.
Then I can start to use that money for the house! In between I might still try to use some money for the house but we will have to wait and see how all that pans out.
I want to be debt free (except the house and student loans) inside of two years. I want to have the house paid off before the student loans. I have a better interest rate with the loans. 4.25% my home is 5.625%.
Not bad on either.

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Snowing here
I HATE SNOW.
Let me rephrase that.
I hate the cold and snow means cold.
So following the proof means I also hate snow.
Got it?
:)
:(

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Went out with a couple of friends last night. Did not get home till after 1 am. That is too late for me these days. I do not like my clothes smelling like smoke after I come home. I do not like spending the money. I do not like feeling like this the next day.

Why do I go and do this kind of stuff?
I did not even drink and my eyes and head hurt like I have a hang over. My damn cat woke me up at 8 am. Yesterday it let me sleep till about 10 (I have no Idea why I slept so late yesterday) so why couldnt it leave me alone this morning when I needed the sleep so much more?

BLAH!

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today
Cannot remember if I posted on this before.
Finally got my first full layout start to end here at this job. I have never had to work with this software (Orcad) before but the layout itself is nothing new.
So I got the pleasure of making a design from schematic to board for the first time up here.
It is kind of cool. Now I can put it on my resume.

Got the drive shaft back into my '93 F-150 last night. I have been driving the newer tuck I just bought. I will drive the ole girl some this weekend and a few days a week to keep her exercised. I am still torn about if I want to sell the '73 VW. The bug is the only car I have access to that does not have a computer in it sooooo if there is a high altitude nuke it is the only thing I have that will still run. I could do something drastic like put a fine mesh metal wall paper in my garage or around the whole house to protect against an EMP. Chances are that it would not be enough anyway. Besides it is absolutely cost prohibitive. Unless I win the lottery in which case there will be other ways to handle such events.

:)

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UPS
Man! UPS can screw up something simple. We put in a claim on a package we shipped. It was insured for $1800 and the claim is for $300. They are refusing the claim saying it was not properly packaged. They screwed up the paperwork to start with they associated a different package description with the tracking number that the claim was on. We had the rep come out and tell us how to package the stuff and he said it was 'OK but borderline' which means they should cover the claim to me.

So we are now on to the third reason for the denial. The first was that it was something other than what was in the box. Then it was that it was insufficient packaging. Now they are saying the box is substandard. The rep said it was borderline not substandard.

With all this I have decided that UPS will not receive any more business from us until this is resolved. We ship several thousand dollars a year and so they lose all that until they resolve this claim for $300. It always make good business sense to lose $3k - $5k a year in order to save a $300 one time expense which was your own damn fault!

I know they do not care because they handle some insane number of packages a day but if you piss off all your customers then you will not handle many packages a day pretty soon.

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Wow its been a long time
I cannot remember the last time I posted.
I have been busy.
I have been going in to work early and leaving a little late. I guess more than anything I have been f**king off in front of the TV a lot.

I bought a newer vehicle. It is a 2004 Nissan Frontier Crew Cab. I like it. I really should have bought a super small super efficient car but I finally just said 'Dont you deserve to have something lice that you WANT in your life instead of everything being all about minimum money and maximum efficiency?' so I bought this truck. It is the most expensive ($11,800) car I have ever owned. I have not had car payments since 1988. It is a huge shift for me.

I have been working on an illegal copy of some very expensive software for some work stuff. My illegal copy bit the high hard one and my boss gave me a license of the legal office copy to put on my personal laptop. That was so F**King cool! If I tried to buy this crap it would be about 10 thousand bucks! I am psyched because of it. I also get to do some design work as a direct result! I am pretty psyched about that too!

I got one of my credit cards paid off in full as of now. I now have to focus all my extra cash on paying off the other one. If I quit eating out and going to the range I should be able to do it within the year. Than I can focus on paying off the new truck!

Ok so that is the last few months n a nut shell.
Still have not heard anything much from my son. He called me on New Years day (about 12:15 in the morning) to tell me he was not coming over. The call lasted about 5 minutes. I am tired of chasing after him. If ha does not call me it is his loss. I do not know why he is so angry but it is his problem not mine. I hope he does well with his life. I doubt I will be privy to find out how he does.

Off to be.
Good night all!
Soon it will be time to start working in the garden again. I ma excited and anxious at the same time!
:)

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Sad Strange little man
I know it is sad but I just looked at the weather for the rest of the week and I find myself really excited about a daytime high of 40 degrees tomorrow.

On other notes taking my walks the last couple of days... Brrrr!
I wore my heavy cold weather gloves tonight for the first time this year.
It was nice! My hands stayed toasty the whole walk.

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Veterans Day
My 7 yr old son called me last night after we had already said good night and all. It was around 9:20 or so.
He called just to tell me he remembered that I am a Veteran and he wanted to say 'Thank you for serving our country." He was tired and said "Thank you for saving our country". It was very cute and I got all choked up about it. I very nearly cried.

Yes I have become a sentimental old man.

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Paranormal Activiteis
Went and saw this movie with a friend last night.
All I can say is this movie is the biggest empty product of media hype since obama (once again please take note of the lowercase here to show disrespect) got elected.
Like all movies of its genre it is full of what appears to be intelligent people making very stupid choices. I guess that if you believe in these kinds of things to start with (I do) you will have a different perspective.
It was not frightening in the modern movie kind of way but more in an Alfred Hitchcock kind of way. You do not get to see the bad guy only the product of it's will.
It was exactly what I expected and I was kind of surprised I stayed awake through it.
Thankfully she paid for the ticket not me!
She wanted to see it not me.
She was let down. I got what I expected.

See it if you are easily frightened and want to. You will be startled a coupe of times by sudden loud noises even though you are expecting it.

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